The Russellville Democrat., 1887-10-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

fHE funeral Of ex-Chief Justice T. G.
Manning, late Minister to Mexico took
place at New Orleans on the 18th, from
Christ Church, Bishop Gallagher officiat-
ing The remains were consigned to q
tomb In Metairie Cemetery.
PRINCE ALBERT VIcToR, son OF the
Prince Of Wales, laid the memorial stone
at the infrmary at Northampton on the
18th. The streets were crowded with
spectators, many of whom greeted the
speakers with groans.
THE Official Gazette of Berlin states that
DR.. Mackenzie has again visited the
Crown Prince Frederick William at
Daveno and reports the patient continues
to improve. 1t has been found necessary
to compel the Crown Prince to refrain
from talking as much as possible.
The Crown Princes birthday was OBJ
served by the people of Berlin on the 10Th.
A NEW and sensational charge is pub
lished against General Boulanger, alleg-
ing war conspiracy between him and
the late Russian editor, Katkoff.
THE argument before the New York
Court of Appeals in the Sharpe case has
been postponed until the 9th instant. 1t
is announced that Jacob Sharpe's lawyers
viii carry his case up to the Supreme
Appeals decides against him.
AMONG the passengers for Liverpool on
the 10th, on the steamship Germanic, was
DR.. Grant Bey, the celebrated physician
and arch@ologist of Cairo, Egypt. ----
Mr.. WILLIAM JoHN EVELYN (Conserva-
tive), member of the British House of
Commons, will resign ON account of his
inability to agree with the government on
the Irish question.
II is stated that Bartley Campbell, the
dramatist, is recovering his insanity, and
will soon be released from the Middletown
IN. Y.) asylum
The Car of Russia has been has til y
summoned to st. Petersburg. He will
leave Copenhagen in few days.
M. KUKI, the Japanese Minister, who Is
about to return home, gave dinner on
the night of the 18th at the Arlington
Hotel, Washington, at which Secretaries
Bayard, Fairchild and Lamar and severaf
justices Of the Supreme Court were pres
ent.
SENATOR MCPHERSON, of New Jersey,
has published his reply to Henry Lytle's
attack on him. He denies all the allega-
tions made, and refers to his previous ex-
tended reply to similar charges as cover
ing the case.
Hon. w. A. Stowe, Democratic candi-
date for district judge in Omaha, Neb,
was stricken with paralysis at a late hour
on the night of the 18th, in Lincoln, and
his recovery is doubtful. He had not re-
gained consciousness on the 18th.
REV. FATHER KERNER, pastor of the
Church of Our Lady, of Mount Carmel,
New York, who was injured in the ruins
of the school house he was building on
East One Hundred and Fifteenth street on
the nth, died at st. Francis Hospital on
the morning of the 10Th.
The London Times of the Goth says: "It
is fact beyond question that Mr.. Glad
stones oratorical performances beat the
record of all the statesmen who ever at
tempted to govern country by their gifts
of speech. We stand amazed at the
fecundity of language and physical en-
durance displayed by man completing
his seventy eighth year"
OK the Goth the presidential party we're
received and entertained at Montgor cry,
Ala, and in the evening started for " ash
ington.
On the goth the funeral of Rustem Effen-
di, secretary OF the Turkish Legation, took
place at Washington.
ON the 20th Mrs James A. Garfield and
her daughter, Miss Mollie, who were pas
sengers ON the teamer Arizona from New
York, arrived at Liverpool.
A DISPATCH of the Goth from Australia
announced the death of w. Z. Sheriden,
the weli-known actor.
RI. Hon. ALEXANDER J.. B. BEREsFoRD
HOPE, a member of the British Parlia-
ment, died on the goth.
MANY of the English papers continue to
deplore Chamberlain's appointment as q
British fisheries dispute commissioner.
EFFORTS are being made by Governor
Gray of Indiana and others to induce the
United States Attorney TO prosecute In
the Federal courts the band of night ma
rauders in Southwestern Indiana known
as sThe White Caps"
On the Goth the Executive Board of Good
Templars, in session at Boston, elected w.
w. Turnbull, of Glasgow, Scotlend, to be
Right Worthy Grand Templar in place of
Hon. J. B. Finch. DIR. Oronhyatekha, of
Ontario, was chosen to nil the Office va
Gated by Mr.. Turnbuli.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the London
Sportsman at Sydney, N. S. W., teie-
graphs that Hanlan, the Canadian oars
man, is suffering from carbuncle on one
of his wrists, rendering it impossible for
him to row for several days. His race
with Beach will consequently be post
poned until the last of November or the
first part Of December, provided the Aus
tralian sculler is willing.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL delivered
another Of his characteristic speeches on
the Irish question at Seaham, England,
ON the 21st.
TAMMASY HALL and the County Democ-
racy of New York City have harmonized
nd M not ta6 xaft f.ft fioba